(R) = Review available on bookishreads.com
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(in other words, if you haven’t read these already, get your hand on them asap!)
- Beartown — Fredrik Backman (R)
- Covenant of Water, The — Abraham Verghese
- Cutting for Stone — Abraham Verghese
- Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver
- Green Mile, The — Stephen King
- Little Liar, The — Mitch Albom (R)
- Man Called Ove, A — Fredrik Backman
- My Friends — Fredrik Backman (R)
- Nightingale, The — Kristin Hannah
- Only the Beautiful — Susan Meissner
- Truths I Never Told You — Kelly Rimmer
- Us Against You — Fredrik Backman (R)
- Winners, The — Fredrik Backman (R)
- Winter Garden — Kristin Hannah
- Woman with the Blue Star, The — Pam Jenoff
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(extremely special reads I would highly recommend!)
- 11.22.63 — Stephen King
- All the Colors of the Dark — Chris Whitaker (R)
- All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
- American Marriage, An — Tayari Jones
- Anxious People — Fredrik Backman
- Beekeeper of Aleppo, The — Christy Lefteri
- Before We Were Yours — Lisa Wingate
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky — Mark T. Sullivan
- Bluebird — Sharon Cameron
- Book of Fire, The — Christy Lefteri
- Book Thief, The — Markus Zusak
- Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The — John Boyne
- Boys From Brazil, The — Ira Levin
- Britt-marie Was Here — Fredrik Backman
- Calamity of Souls, A — David Baldacci (R)
- Cilka’s Journey — Heather Morris
- Concrete Rose — Angie Thomas
- Diamond Eye, The — Kate Quinn
- Diary of Anne Frank, The — Anne Frank
- Forest of Vanishing Stars, The — Kristin Harmel
- Girl With the Louding Voice, The — Abi Daré
- Glory Over Everything — Kathleen Grissom
- Great Alone, The — Kristin Hannah
- Hate U Give, The — Angie Thomas
- Have You Seen Luis Velez? — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Heart’s Invisible Furies, The — John Boyne
- Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The — V.E. Schwab
- Invention of Wings, The — Sue Monk Kidd
- Kitchen House, The — Kathleen Grissom
- Light in Hidden Places, The — Sharon Cameron
- Lincoln Highway, The — Amor Towles
- Lovely Bones, The — Alice Sebold
- Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, The — Mitch Albom
- Misery — Stephen King
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry — Fredrik Backman
- Night Road — Kristin Hannah
- Orphan Collector, The — Ellen Marie Wiseman
- Pay it Forward — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Power of One, The — Bryce Courtenay
- Prayer for Owen Meany, A — John Irving (R)
- Prince of the Skies, The — Antonio Iturbe
- River is Waiting, The — Wally Lamb
- Room — Emma Donoghue
- Salt to the Sea — Ruta Sepetys
- Stand, The — Stephen King
- Small Great Things — Jodi Picoult
- Storyteller, The — Jodi Picoult
- Take My Hand — Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Ten Thousand Doors of January, The — Alix E. Harrow
- Thousand Splendid Suns, A — Khaled Hosseini
- Things We Cannot Say, The — Kelly Rimmer
- This Tender Land — William Kent Krueger
- Three Sisters — Heather Morris
- We Are Called to Rise — Laura McBride
- Where the Crawdads Sing — Delia Owens
- Yellow Wife — Sadeqa Johnson
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(very solid and entertaining reads that I’ll gladly stand behind)
- Alice Network, The — Kate Quinn
- All the Broken Places — John Boyne
- All the Little Pieces — Jilliane Hoffman
- All We Ever Wanted — Emily Giffin
- Allie and Bea — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Alone — Lisa Gardner
- Along Came a Spider — James Patterson
- Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- American Dirt — Jeanine Cummins
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer — Fredrik Backman
- And So I Roar — Abi Daré
- Apocalypse Watch, The — Robert Ludlum
- April Fool’s Day — Bryce Courtenay
- Artifice — Sharon Cameron
- Ask Again, Yes — Mary Beth Keane
- Ask Him Why — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Attic Child, The — Lola Jaye (R)
- Beneath the Skin — Nicci French
- Between Shades of Gray — Ruta Sepetys
- Big Little Lies — Liane Moriarty
- Billy Straight — Jonathan Kellerman
- Black Cake — Charmaine Wilkerson
- Blood Ties — Samantha Hayes
- Bone Collector, The — Jeffery Deaver
- Bone Tree, The — Greg Iles
- Book of Lost Friends, The — Lisa Wingate
- Book of Lost Names, The — Kristin Harmel
- Boy Swallows Universe — Trent Dalton
- Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett, The — Annie Lyons
- Brave Girl, Quiet Girl — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Broken Angels — Gemma Liviero
- Broken Harbour — Tana French
- Calamity Club, The — Kathryn Stockett
- Call Me Evie — J.P. Pomare
- Chain, The — Adrian McKinty (R)
- Chasing Windmills — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Choke, The — Sofie Laguna
- Code Name Helene — Ariel Lawhon
- Color Purple, The — Alice Walker
- Cop Town — Karin Slaughter
- Crow Mary — Kathleen Grissom (R)
- Cutting Room, The — Jilliane Hoffman
- Dark Places — Gillian Flynn
- Dear Martin — Nic Stone
- Defending Jacob — William Landay
- Different Seasons — Stephen King
- Down the Darkest Road — Tami Hoag
- Dreaming of Flight — Catherine Ryan Hyde (R)
- Dry, The — Jane Harper
- Dust Child — Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (R)
- Dutch House, The — Ann Patchett
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine — Gail Honeyman
- Eternal — Lisa Scottoline
- Every Last One — Anna Quindlen
- Exiles — Jane Harper
- Exiles, The — Christina Baker Kline
- Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, The — Robert Dugoni
- Eye of the Sheep, The — Sofie Laguna
- Faithful Place — Tana French
- Fall of Marigolds, A — Susan Meissner (R)
- False Memory — Dean Koontz
- False Witness — Karin Slaughter
- Family Ship, The — Sonja Yoerg
- Five People You Meet in Heaven, The — Mitch Albom
- Fix, The — David Baldacci
- Fool Me Once — Harlan Coben
- From Boys to Men — Maggie Dent
- From the Corner of His Eye — Dean Koontz
- Frozen River, The — Ariel Lawhon
- Fountains of Silence, The — Ruta Sepetys
- Gentleman in Moscow, A — Amor Towles
- German Wife, The — Kelly Rimmer
- Girl on the Train, The — Paula Hawkins
- Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The — Stieg Larsson
- Giver of Stars, The — Jojo Moyes
- Go as a River — Shelley Read
- Gone, Baby, Gone — Dennis Lehane
- Gone Girl — Gillian Flynn
- Good as Dead — Mark Billingham
- Good Daughter, The — Karin Slaughter
- Good Me, Bad Me — Ali Land
- Graveyard Book, The — Neil Gaiman
- Ground Zero — Alan Gratz (R)
- Half of a Yellow Sun — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Hart’s War — John Katzenbach
- Help, The — Kathryn Stockett
- Herring Cove Road series — Michael Kroft
- Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi (R)
- Honeybee — Craig Silvey
- House in the Cerulean Sea, The — TJ Klune
- House of Eve, The — Sadeqa Johnson
- How to Be Second Best — Jessica Dettmann
- Huntress, The — Kate Quinn
- I Found You — Lisa Jewell
- I’m Not Dying With You Tonight — Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
- In the Midnight Room — Laura McBride
- In the Woods — Tana French
- Invisible Girl — Lisa Jewell
- James — Percival Everett
- Jasper Jones — Craig Silvey
- Joyland — Stephen King
- Judas Child — Carol O’Connell
- Keeper of Lost Children — Sadeqa Johnson
- Killing Floor — Lee Child
- Kommandant’s Girl, The — Pam Jenoff
- Language of Hoofbeats, The — Catherine Ryan Hyde (R)
- Last Breath — Karin Slaughter
- Last Green Valley, The — Mark T. Sullivan
- Last Year of the War, The — Susan Meissner
- Ledge, The — Christian White (R)
- Lessons in Chemistry — Bonnie Garmus
- Librarian of Auschwitz, The — Antonio Iturbe (R)
- Life Without Water, A — Marci Bolden
- Lion — Saroo Brierley
- Lilac Girls — Martha Hall Kelly
- Lincoln Lawyer, The — Michael Connelly
- Local Woman Missing — Mary Kubica
- Lola in the Mirror — Trent Dalton (R)
- Long Petal of the Sea, A — Isabel Allende
- Long Walk, The — Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King)
- Lord of the Flies — William Golding
- Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, The — Holly Ringland
- Lost Girls of Paris, The — Pam Jenoff
- Lost Man, The — Jane Harper
- Lost Roses — Martha Hall Kelly
- Love in the Present Tense — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, The — Rachel Joyce
- Lucky Ones, The — Mark Edwards
- Lying Beside You — Michael Robotham
- Malibu Rising — Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Match, The — Harlan Coben
- Maureen — Rachel Joyce (R)
- Memory Man — David Baldacci
- Midwife of Berlin, The — Anna Stuart
- Mockingbird Summer — Lynda Rutledge
- Moonshiner’s Daughter, The — Donna Everhart
- Mystic River — Dennis Lehane
- Natchez Burning — Greg Iles
- Nathan’s Run — John Gilstrap
- Nature of Fragile Things, The — Susan Meissner
- Next Person You Meet in Heaven, The — Mitch Albom
- Night She Disappeared, The — Lisa Jewell
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong
- Ordinary Grace — William Kent Krueger
- Orphan Train — Christina Baker Kline
- Outsider, The — Stephen King
- Outsiders, The — S.E. Hinton
- Paris Architect, The — Charles Belfoure
- Paris Library, The — Janet Skeslien Charles
- Perfect Husband, The — Lisa Gardner
- Pretty Girls — Karin Slaughter
- Primal Fear — William Diehl
- Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
- Pull of the Stars, The — Emma Donoghue
- Purple Hibiscus — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Razorblade Tears — S.A. Cosby
- Reconstructing Amelia — Kimberly McCreight
- Red Dragon — Thomas Harris
- Remarkably Bright Creatures — Shelby van Pelt
- Reunion, The — Samantha Hayes
- River We Remember, The — William Kent Krueger
- Riviera House, The — Natasha Lester
- Room on Rue Amelie, The — Kristin Harmel
- Rose Code, The — Kate Quinn
- Ruin, The — Dervla McTiernan
- Sarah’s Key — Tatiana de Rosnay
- Say Goodbye — Lisa Gardner
- Say Goodbye For Now — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Scent Keeper, The — Erica Bauermeister
- Scrublands — Chris Hammer
- Secret Life of Bees, The — Sue Monk Kidd
- Secrets She Keeps, The — Michael Robotham
- Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The — Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Sharp Objects — Gillian Flynn
- Silence in Between, The — Josie Ferguson
- Silence of the Lambs, The — Thomas Harris
- Silent Wife, The — Karin Slaughter (R)
- Simple Truth, The — David Baldacci
- Since We Fell — Dennis Lehane
- Someone Else’s Son — Samantha Hayes
- Songbirds — Christy Lefteri
- Stay — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Storm Child, The — Michael Robotham
- Stranger, The — Harlan Coben
- Suspect — Robert Crais
- Sycamore Row — John Grisham
- Tattooist of Auschwitz, The — Heather Morris
- Tell-tale — Samantha Hayes
- Then She Was Gone — Lisa Jewell
- Time for Mercy, A — John Grisham
- Time to Kill, A — John Grisham
- To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
- Trespasser, The — Tana French
- Try Not to Breathe — Holly Seddon
- Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The — Rachel Joyce
- Until You’re Mine — Sam Hayes
- Vanishing Half, The — Brit Bennett
- Violeta — Isabel Allende
- War Pianist, The — Mandy Robotham
- Warsaw Orphan, The — Kelly Rimmer
- We Are All Guilty Here — Karin Slaughter (R)
- West with Giraffes — Lynda Rutledge
- What Could be Saved — Liese O’Halloran Schwarz
- What Happened to Nina — Dervla McTiernan (R)
- When All is Said — Anne Griffin
- When She Was Good — Michael Robotham
- When Things are Alive They Hum — Hannah Bent
- Where We Belong — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- White Star — James Stewart Thayer
- Wild (aka Magic Hour) — Kristin Hannah
- Wild Road Home, The — Melissa Payne
- Winemaker’s Wife, The — Kristin Harmel
- Witch Elm, The — Tana French
- Woman in the Window, The — A. J. Finn
- Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop, The — Fannie Flagg
- World Played Chess, The — Robert Dugoni
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(I’m sure you won’t be disappointed)
- Abducted — Brian Pinkerton
- All She Ever Wanted — Patrick Redmond
- All That Remains — Patricia Cornwell
- Allie and Bea — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Another Life — Kristin Hannah
- Apple of My Eye — Patrick Redmond
- Ashes to Ashes — Tami Hoag
- At the Stroke of Madness — Alex Kava
- Auschwitz Lullaby — Mario Escobar
- Back Spin — Harlan Coben
- Bad Luck and Trouble — Lee Child
- Because She Loves Me — Mark Edwards
- Before Evil — Alex Kava
- Before I Go to Sleep — S.J. Watson
- Before She Disappeared — Lisa Gardner
- Beneath the Bleeding — Val McDermid
- Berlin Girl, The — Mandy Robotham
- Beyond Reach — Karin Slaughter
- Birthdays for the Dead — Stuart MacBride
- Bitter Season, The — Tami Hoag
- Black Box, The — Michael Connelly
- Black Echo, The — Michael Connelly
- Black Ice, The — Michael Connelly
- Black Velvet Gown, The — Catherine Cookson
- Bleed For Me — Michael Robotham
- Blindsighted — Karin Slaughter
- Blissfully Dead, The — Louise Voss and Mark Edwards
- Blood is the Sky — Steve Hamilton
- Blue Nowhere, The — Jeffery Deaver
- Body of Evidence — Patricia Cornwell
- Bombproof — Michael Robotham
- Bones Beneath, The — Mark Billingham
- Borrowed Time — C. J. Lyons
- Boy, The — Tami Hoag
- Boy From the Woods, The — Harlan Coben
- Breaking Creed — Alex Kava
- Brick — Conrad Jones
- Broken — Karin Slaughter
- Broken Skin — Stuart MacBride
- Burning Room, The — Michael Connelly
- A Candle in Her Room — Ruth M. Arthur
- Catcher in the Rye, The — J. D. Salinger
- City of Bones — Michael Connelly
- Closers, The — Michael Connelly
- Close Your Eyes — Michael Robotham
- Cold Day in Paradise, A — Steve Hamilton
- Color Purple, The — Alice Walker
- Concrete Blonde, The — Michael Connelly
- Criminal — Karin Slaughter
- Cross and Burn — Val McDermid
- Crossing, The — Michael Connelly
- Dark Horse — Tami Hoag
- Dark Room, The — Sam Blake
- Darker Domain, A — Val McDermid
- Darkest Fear — Harlan Coben
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter — Jeff Lindsay
- Darkness More Than Night, A — Michael Connelly
- Date, The — Louise Jensen
- Date Night — Samantha Hayes
- Dead Aim — Thomas Perry
- Deal Breaker — Harlan Coben
- Deal of a Lifetime, The — Fredrik Backman
- Death Factory, The — Greg Iles
- Deeper Than the Dead — Tami Hoag
- Devil’s Punchbowl, The — Greg Iles
- Devil’s Work, The — Mark Edwards
- Die a Stranger — Steve Hamilton
- Die Trying — Lee Child
- Diplomat’s Wife, The — Pam Jenoff
- Distant Echo, The — Val McDermid
- Don’t Let Go — Harlan Coben
- Don’t You Cry — Mary Kubica
- Door, The — Magda Szabo
- Drop Shot — Harlan Coben
- Eager to Please — Julie Parsons
- Echo Burning — Lee Child
- Echo Park — Michael Connelly
- Edge — Jeffery Deaver
- Enemy, The — Lee Child
- Eternal — Lisa Scottoline
- Every Last Lie — Mary Kubica
- Exposed — Alex Kava
- The Eyes of Karen Connors — Lois Duncan
- Fade Away — Harlan Coben
- Fairy Tale — Stephen King
- Fall, The — Louise Jensen
- Fallen — Karin Slaughter
- Fallen, The — David Baldacci
- Family Remains, The — Lisa Jewell (R)
- Family Upstairs, The — Lisa Jewell
- Fever of the Bone — Val McDermid
- Find Her — Lisa Gardner
- Finding Claire Fletcher — Lisa Regan
- Find Us — Benjamin Stevenson
- Firefly Lane — Kristin Hannah
- Fireproof — Alex Kava
- Flesh House — Stuart MacBride
- Fly Away — Kristin Hannah
- Follow You Home — Mark Edwards
- Force of Nature — Jane Harper
- Four Winds, The — Kristin Hannah
- Fractured — Catherine McKenzie
- Fractured — Karin Slaughter
- Friend, The — Teresa Driscoll
- From the Cradle — Louise Voss
- Gift, The — Louise Jensen
- Girl, Forgotten — Karin Slaughter
- Girl Who Played With Fire, The — Stieg Larsson
- Girls, The — Lisa Jewell
- God of Small Things, The — Arundhati Roy (R)
- Gone For Good — Harlan Coben
- Gone Tomorrow — Lee Child
- Good Girl, The — Mary Kubica
- Good Girl, Bad Girl — Michael Robotham
- Good Sister, The — Sally Hepworth
- Good Turn, The — Dervla McTiernan
- Great Gatsby, The — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Guilty as Sin — Tami Hoag
- Guilty Heart, The — Julie Parsons
- Guncle, The — Steven Rowley
- Happy Couple, The — Samantha Hayes
- Happy Hour — Jacquie Byron
- Hard Way, The — Lee Child
- Her Last Day — T. R. Ragan
- Home — Harlan Coben
- Home Before Night — J. P. Pomare
- Horse — Geraldine Brooks
- Hotwire — Alex Kava
- House We Grew Up In, The — Lisa Jewell
- Husband’s Secret, The — Liane Moriarty
- Hypnotist’s Love Story, The — Liane Moriarty
- I am Watching You — Teresa Driscoll
- I Saw You — Julie Parsons
- I Will Find You — Harlan Coben
- I Will Make You Pay — Teresa Driscoll
- In Deep Water — Sam Blake
- In the Clearing — J. P. Pomare
- Indelible — Karin Slaughter
- Insidious Intent — Val McDermid
- Interrogation, The — Thomas H. Cook
- In Too Deep — Samantha Hayes
- Jewish Girl in Paris, A — Melanie Levensohn (R)
- Katie Mulholland — Catherine Cookson
- Keep Quiet — Lisa Scottoline
- Kept Woman, The — Karin Slaughter
- Kisscut — Karin Slaughter
- Last Coyote, The — Michael Connelly
- Last Mile, The — David Baldacci
- Last Thing She Ever Did, The — Gregg Olsen
- Last Witness — Jilliane Hoffman
- Late Show, The — Michael Connelly
- Let It Burn — Steve Hamilton
- Liar’s Wife, The — Samantha Hayes
- Lie to Me — J. T. Ellison
- Life or Death — Michael Robotham
- Light Between Oceans, The — M. L. Stedman
- Lightning Strike — William Kent Krueger
- Likeness, The — Tana French
- Little Bones — Sam Blake
- Little Fires Everywhere — Celeste Ng
- Little Women — Louisa May Alcott
- Live Wire — Harlan Coben
- Local Woman Missing — Mary Kubica
- Long and Faraway Gone, The — Lou Berney
- Long Lost — Harlan Coben
- Long Road to Mercy — David Baldacci
- Look For Me — Lisa Gardner
- Lost — Michael Robotham
- Lost Creed — Alex Kava
- Lost Light — Michael Connelly
- Love Story — Erich Segal
- Love Will Tear Us Apart — Holly Seddon
- Mad Honey — Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Mallen Streak, The — Catherine Cookson
- Marriage Betrayal, The — Shalini Boland
- Marriage Lie, The — Kimberly Belle
- Mary, Mary — Julie Parsons
- Master of the Delta — Thomas H. Cook
- Midnight Library, The — Matt Haig
- Minute to Midnight, A — David Baldacci
- Misery Bay — Steve Hamilton
- Moth, The — Catherine Cookson
- Murder Rule, The — Dervla McTiernan
- Mr Mercedes — Stephen King
- Music Box — Deborah Chiel
- My Sister, the Serial Killer — Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Narrows, The — Michael Connelly
- Necessary Evil, A — Alex Kava
- Never Tell — Lisa Gardner
- Nickel Boys, The — Colson Whitehead
- Nim’s Island — Wendy Orr
- Nine Dragons — Michael Connelly
- No One to Hear You (aka Unspoken) — Samantha Hayes
- No Turning Back — Sam Blake
- No Way Out — Samantha Hayes
- None of This is True — Lisa Jewell
- Normal People — Sally Rooney
- Nothing to Lose — Lee Child
- Nowhere Child, The — Christian White
- On Writing — Stephen King
- One False Move — Harlan Coben
- One Perfect Lie — Lisa Scottoline
- One Shot — Lee Child
- One Step Too Far — Lisa Gardner
- One to Watch — Kate Stayman-London
- One True Loves — Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Open Season — CJ Box
- Other Mrs, The — Mary Kubica
- Other Side of Beautiful, The — Kim Lock
- Other Wife, The — Michael Robotham
- Overlook, The — Michael Connelly
- Perfect Evil, A — Alex Kava
- Perfect Match — D.B. Thorne
- Pieces of Her — Karin Slaughter
- Pineapple Street — Jenny Jackson
- Playing Beatie Row — Ruth Park
- Playing Nice — J. P. Delaney
- Plea of Insanity — Jilliane Hoffman
- Postmortem — Patricia Cornwell
- Potato Factory, The — Bryce Courtenay
- Pretty Baby — Mary Kubica
- Pretty Little Things — Jilliane Hoffman
- Promise, The — Robert Crais
- Promise Me — Harlan Coben
- Puppet Show, The — Patrick Redmond
- Quiet Game, The — Greg Iles
- Radar Girls — Sara Ackerman
- Reckless Creed — Alex Kava
- Red Dragon — Thomas Harris
- Red Room — Nicci French
- Red Sky Over Hawaii — Sara Ackerman
- Redemption — David Baldacci
- Retribution — Jilliane Hoffman
- Right Behind You — Lisa Gardner
- Roommate, The — Dervla McTiernan
- Rose Madder — Stephen King
- Rosie Project, The — Graeme Simsion
- Rules of Backyard Cricket, The — Jock Serong
- Rules of Civility — Amor Towles
- Run Away — Harlan Coben
- Running Blind — Lee Child
- Running Man, The — Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)
- Rush of Blood — Mark Billingham
- Sara Dane — Gatherine Gaskin
- Second Skin — Christian White
- Secret, The — Katerina Diamond
- Secret Keeper, The — Kate Morton
- Secret Messenger, The — Mandy Robotham
- Secret Place, The — Tana French
- Secret Smile — Nicci French
- See Jane Run — Joy Fielding
- Sentry, The — Robert Crais
- Seven Perfect Things — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Shadow of the Wind, The — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Shatter — Michael Robotham
- Shelter — Harlan Coben
- Show of Evil — William Diehl
- Silent Corner, The — Dean Koontz
- Silent Creed — Alex Kava
- Silent Patient, The — Alex Michaelides
- Silver — Chris Hammer
- Silver Sparrow — Tayari Jones
- Simple Genius — David Baldacci
- Simple Plan, A — Scott Smith
- Simple Simon — Ryne Douglas Pearson
- Sisters, The — Cormac Reilly
- Sleeping Beauty — Phillip Margolin
- Sleepyhead — Mark Billingham
- So Long, Chester Wheeler — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Something in the Water — Catherine Steadman
- Sometimes I Lie — Alice Feeney
- Soul Catcher, The — Alex Kava
- Spare Me the Truth — C. J. Carver
- Sparring Partners — John Grisham
- Split Second — Alex Kava
- Stealing Faces — Michael Prescott
- Still House — Christian White
- Stillhouse Lake — Rachel Caine
- Stolen Sisters, The — Louise Jensen
- Storm Child — Michael Robotham
- Stranded — Alex Kava
- Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck, The — Mark Manson
- Summer Island — Kristin Hannah
- Surrogate, The — Louise Jensen
- Surviving Savannah — Patti Callahan Henry
- Survivors, The — Jane Harper
- Suspect — Michael Robotham
- Switchblade — Michael Connelly
- Sworn to Silence — Linda Castillo
- Taken — Robert Crais
- Tandia — Bryce Courtenay
- Teacher, The — Katerina Diamond
- Tell Me a Secret — Samantha Hayes
- Tell Me Lies — J. P. Pomare
- Tell Me No Secrets — Joy Fielding
- Third Victim, The — Lisa Gardner
- Three Lives of Alix St Pierre, The — Natasha Lester
- Three Wishes — Liane Moriarty
- Torment of Others, The — Val McDermid
- Truth About Melody Browne, The — Lisa Jewell
- Things My Son Needs to Know About the World — Fredrik Backman
- Think Twice — Harlan Coben
- This is Why We Lied — Karin Slaughter (R)
- Three Weeks to Say Goodbye — CJ Box
- To be Taught, if Fortunate — Becky Chambers
- Touch & Go — Lisa Gardner
- Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A — Betty Smith
- Tripwire — Lee Child
- Troll — D. B. Thorne
- True Blue — David Baldacci
- True Colors — Kristin Hannah
- Trunk Music — Michael Connelly
- Truth or Die — Katerina Diamond
- Turning Angel — Greg Iles
- Two Minute Rule, The — Robert Crais
- Underground Railroad, The — Colson Whitehead
- Under the Whispering Door — TJ Klune (R)
- Undone — Karin Slaughter
- Unremarkable Heart, The — Karin Slaughter
- Unseen — Karin Slaughter
- Until it’s Over — Nicci French
- Vince and Joy — Lisa Jewell
- Walk the Wire — David Baldacci
- Watching You — Lisa Jewell
- Watching You — Michael Robotham
- What Alice Forgot — Liane Moriarty
- What the Night Knows — Dean Koontz
- What You Left Behind — Samantha Hayes
- When the Lights Go Out — Mary Kubica
- When We Had Wings — A. Lawhon, K. McMorris and S. Meissner
- When We Ran — Keith Leopold
- When You are Mine — Michael Robotham
- Whispering Room, The — Dean Koontz
- Widow, The — K. L. Slater
- Wife and the Widow, The — Christian White
- Wife Between Us, The — Greer Hendricks
- Wind Knows My Name, The — Isabel Allende
- Wired — Douglas E. Richards
- Wishing Game, The — Patrick Redmond
- Without Fail — Lee Child
- Women, The — Kristin Hannah
- Woods, The — Harlan Coben
- Worthy — Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Wreckage, The — Michael Robotham
- Wrong Side of Goodbye, The — Michael Connelly
- Wrong Woman, The — J. P. Pomare
- You Are Not Alone — G. Hendricks and S. Pekkanen
- You Belong to Me — Samantha Hayes
- You Then, Me Now — Nick Alexander
- Your Heart Belongs to Me — Dean Koontz
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(I don’t recommend wasting your precious reading time on these)
- An Anonymous Girl — Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
- Apples Never Fall — Liane Moriarty
- Bad Daughter, The — Joy Fielding
- Beantown Girls, The — Jane Healey
- Believe Me — J.P. Delaney
- Best Friend, The — Shalini Boland
- Blue Heaven — CJ Box
- Blue Monday — Nicci French
- Body Farm, The — Patricia Cornwell
- Carrie Soto is Back — Taylor Jenkins Reid (R)
- Can’t Let Go — Jane Hill
- Cleaning the Gold — Karin Slaughter
- Courtship Gift, The — Julie Parsons
- Cruel & Unusual — Patricia Cornwell
- Daylight — David Baldacci
- Dispossession — Tayari Jones
- Everything I Never Told You — Celeste Ng
- Girl From the Sea, The — Shalini Boland
- Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, The — Stephen King
- Nine Perfect Strangers — Liane Moriarty
- Not a Sound — Heather Gudenkauf
- Perfect Wife, The — J. P. Delaney
- Riptide — Michael Prescott
- True Places — Sonja Yoerg
- Vanishing Point, The — Val McDermid
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